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title: "'And I often cried about you, for I was afraid lest you were drowne… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "'And I often cried about you, for I was afraid lest you were drowned and lying at the bottom of the sea. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 36

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"'And I often cried about you, for I was afraid lest you were drowned and lying at the bottom of the sea.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** cry, be, drown, lie · **To what, where:** you, bottom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:72:36
# text = "'And I often cried about you, for I was afraid lest you were drowned and lying at the bottom of the sea.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	_
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | mother |  |  |  |  | about you; often *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about you=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | mother |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | the bottom of the sea |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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